Over the last year or so, I've been tending toward the other browsers - Chrome, Safari, Opera, due to big speed improvements in those browsers (especially Chrome, which I was using most).

But with Chrome, it's a little sparse feature-wise, and it's appearance is really primitive.

But with Firefox 3.6, speed has been greatly improved, in terms of both launch time and page rendering. Also, memory usage has been reduced, and it's been made more robust in handling plug-ins. And the new Tracemonkey Javascript engine is great (and fast).

To add to the under the hood improvements, I really like the new Personas. It's really very nice to have over 33,000 LnF's just a click away, and with it not being bloated.

And of course, Firefox Add-ons are second to none. Everyone who uses Firefox has their favorites, and those favs become difficult to do without when using other browsers. For me, it's ReminderFox, MinimizeToTray, and the eMusic toolbar.

Finally, Firefox, for me, has been the best all-around browser for rendering myriad websites. It seems Firefox can handle anything (whether it's bad web development, IE6 style sites, or just bloated flash stuff, or even elegant CSS/DHTML).

With the big speed improvements, and lessened memory usage, Firefox 3.6 is near on par with Chrome, but with a much richer feature set and a much more attractive environment.

Now I'm back to Firefox as my everyday browser.

These are halcyon days for Browsers - Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari - they're all in a race, and constantly leapfrogging each other, for the benefit of end users.

Then there's poor, pathetic IE - in spite of big improvements, it's woefully behind the others, and a big security nightmare. It's a wonder anybody uses it anymore, and a wonder MS hasn't trashed it and started anew.